the world: money

I used to think that all countries had the same money as the United States, because the only currency I knew about was the united states, I never knew about the other countries and that made me believe that the currency was the same in poland, japan, germany, etc.

I told a kid once that when you grow up you have to pay all sorts of taxes, like taxes on youre house and that sort of stuff. Then I told him with a completely straight face that there was such thing as a potato tax, for every potato you ate you would have to pay 7 cents. And he actually believed me....

When I was 8, I thought I could become a multi-billionaire by selling a bunch of cups and magazines that were in my house. The reason I wanted this is because I wanted massage chairs that vibrated.

My mother told me that money was the dirtiest thing around. I decided it was because people kept it in their bums.

That belief lingered and when I was a cashier in HS I almost vomitted when someone handed me a damp dollar bill.

I'm Norwegian, but my family lived in the US when I was a little girl. Norwegian currency is called "kroner" and around the time that we were moving back to Norway (1969) one dollar was about 10 kroner. I didn't know this, I just thought of a dollar as an American unit of money, and a krone as the Norwegian equivalent. Shortly after having moved back, my mom asked me to go to the store and buy a loaf of bread. I was absolutely horrified when the shopkeeper wanted 1,50 (or whatever it was) - the idea that bread cost more than one unit of money was outrageous. When I returned from the store my mom explained it to me. I remember asking her if we were millionaires in kroner - positive that the answer surely would have to be "yes" if we were to continue eating with the food prices I'd just experienced. But her answer was "no", and I felt incredibly poor! (I was 11 at the time, and my family's income was slightly above average.)

I used to think the man on the dime was Arnold Palmer.

When I was little I thought having $1000 or so you were rich and I asked my mom one day "How much money do we have?$333??"She the explained the value of mony to me.

I never realized that there was a difference between silver (those minted before 1964 were made entirely of silver) dimes and quarters and "normal" dimes and quarters (the copper sandwich). As a result, I used to raid my mother's stash of silver coins to buy ice cream from the ice cream man!

My friend read this book about a girl who had saved up her coins as a child and later on she turned into a millionaire...................well we were convinced abt it & tried the same (no success)
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When i was a kid i though rubber boots were called Welfare Boots

i used to believe that i could store all my money inside my vagina and it would grow cos that's where i grew in my mummy.

I used to think that checks turned into receipts. I saw the cashier stick my mom's check under the thing that would read it, and above it was the receipt printer. I saw the check go in underneath and the check come out above, so I believed that somehow the check became a receipt.

When I learned about exchange rates from traveling young, I thought any country whose money went into the dollar was inferior, and any country where the dollar was worth less than their currency was superior. Hence the UK was superior, Canada was inferior, etc. I found out I was wrong in 12th grade but by then convinced a lot of people, including myself, that I knew what countries were superior or not.

Not mine, one I heard from a customer. She wanted to fax us a check to pay her account, thinking that this would serve as a legitimate form of payment. (can you imagine if she'd wanted to fax bills and coins?)

My little cousin Robbie who is about 6 thinks that all American money is the same---he counts a penny as one, a 20 dollar bill as one, and a 5 dollar bill as one dollar, it doesn't matter what type of money it is. All bills and coins---to him---are counted as one dollar!

For example one day he had a five dollar bill and a one dollar bill in his pocket. He took the money out and counted it aloud. "I have two dollars". He actually had 6 dollars!

As a kid I didn't know that one dollar equals 100 cents (like in any other currency) So when I was 7 or 8 and I was reading new issue of my favorite "Donald Duck" comic magazine, there was a story od Donald hired by uncle Scrooge to take his place in worrying so he would have more time to count his money. The rate was thirty cents per hour. When after four hours they realized that Scrooge had forgotten what was Donald supposed to worry about and he started panicking that one dollar and twenty cents was wasted for nothing. Forgetting that this 1,20$ was for four hours, I assumed that since dollar and twenty cents was like thirty cents, then one dollar was ten cents! It even seemed logical to me, since ten cents was such a nice round number, and this money amount was so often referred to in movies, so it must have been equivalent of one dollar! It was way later when I read it again and realized about these four hours, and that 0,30$*4=1,20$, and that if one dollar was really ten cents, then thirty cents would just make three dollars, instead of 1,20!